Executive Pay Facts of the Day

Chief executives in the financial services, oil and health care industries generally landed outsized paydays in 2006, just as they have for years. Ray R. Irani, Occidental Petroleum’s chief executive, had a $52.1 million payday, the largest of anyone on the list of 150 companies that filed under the new rules. But even that amount was overshadowed by what Lloyd C. Blankfein, Goldman Sachs’s chief executive, was paid under the old disclosure system. His $54.3 million pay package made him Wall Street’s highest-paid boss, though he held the top job for less than half the year. Not far behind Mr. Blankfein were the heads of Wall Street’s other big investment banks, where the typical pay package crossed the $40 million mark.

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